Albums or cassettes you once owned

**pete376403** · 2nd February 2011, 19:30

Originally Posted by CAMSec

....I remember the first records I owned like it was yesterday...but these days I sometimes have problems , remembering yesterday...

Rubber Soul--Beatles
Aqualung---Jethro Tull
Best Of Cream
Machine Head...Deep Purple
Sex, Dope, Rock'n'Roll: Teenage Heaven----Daddy Cool
Relics---Pink Floyd
Master of Reality---Slack Cabbage......

Someone else bought "Relics" too? When I was doing the apprenticeship there was a big ol' valve radio in the workshop. Was working late one night and "Interstellar Overdrive" came on. Cranked up the volume and I was entranced, bought the album the next day (LPs used to cost $4.99 which was a seious chunk of the $21 per week I was getting).

**pete376403** · 2nd February 2011, 19:43

Originally Posted by Fatt Max

I had an album by a band called The Adventures. They were an Irish band that I saw supporting Fleetwood Mac at Wembley Arena 20 years ago. They were a great band. I didnt really like Fleetwood Mac but I was bought a ticket so went along. They were shite anyway.

Bought the Adventures album on cassette the next day and basically wore it out. Have never been able to find it since.

These guys? http://magdalane.webs.com/dvdandmp3s.htm

**Smifffy** · 2nd February 2011, 20:00

I had a feckin awesome cassette collection. Somebody else must have thought so too - enough to smash a window, open the door and remove it along with a bunch of other stuff.

T'was a sad day, I think I miss the tapes the most.

**HenryDorsetCase** · 2nd February 2011, 20:07

Originally Posted by pete376403

Someone else bought "Relics" too? When I was doing the apprenticeship there was a big ol' valve radio in the workshop. Was working late one night and "Interstellar Overdrive" came on. Cranked up the volume and I was entranced, bought the album the next day (LPs used to cost $4.99 which was a seious chunk of the $21 per week I was getting).

Its got Arnold Layne on it as well if I remember.

One of my mates left school and became a printers apprentice. He got $50 in his first week, and paid his mum $20 board, and of the $30 left over he bought three records in one week. We were all so jealous. We could only afford like one record every three weeks.

and remember that feeling when you dropped a decent chunk of money on an LP, got it home and it sucked? so disappointing. Dont have that commitment these days...

**pete376403** · 2nd February 2011, 20:21

So of course now I had to go and dig the thing out of the boxes in the bottom of the wardrobe. arnold layne, see Emily play, remember a day, paintbox, julia dream, careful with the axe eugene, cirrus minor, the nile song, biding my time , bike and of course interstellar overdrive. The cover is a line drawing of a weird Heath Robinson type machine drawn by Nick Mason. dated 1967.

Must be time to get one of those USB turntables and get all this onto hard drive.

**Sketchy Snr** · 2nd February 2011, 20:42

Originally Posted by Maha

79' or there abouts I bought Ellen Foleys Album....the female voice behind Meatloaf...

Not too many people can say they bought this, but I can.

**ellipsis** · 2nd February 2011, 22:37

....at the risk of being jumped on by by those who only ever heard the newer Pink Floyd ...The Wall and after...their earlier stuff was a truer reflection of what Floyd really were...one of their earlier albums Obscured By Clouds is my choice for their most memorable album...

**Laava** · 3rd February 2011, 06:44

Originally Posted by pete376403

Must be time to get one of those USB turntables and get all this onto hard drive.

Funny I was thinking that as I opened this thread, only because I just started ripping vinyl last night. If you still have a turntable of any reasonable quality, just buy an analogue-digital interface and down load Audacity. I looked at the turntables and then checked them out on forums. They are pretty much useless until you start spending serious coin on them. With the interface you can plug virtually any device into the back of them, tape, vinyl, 8 track etc. When you are done you can onsell and will only cost you <$200
There waqs a guy on TM selling a record collection of 160 albums and he's wanting $3500! Fuck me, I still have 130 odd and access to shitloads more.

**pete376403** · 3rd February 2011, 19:40

I tried a while ago using an analog turntable into a regular amp, then taking output from there to the PC, using Cool Edit pro to clean up the ticks and pops. Trouble was, by the time the recording was ok, I was pretty sick of that album. However the PC I was using back then was pretty mediocre, took about an hour to filter a track.
Cool Edit doesnt exist any more, would Audacity do a better job?

**Laava** · 3rd February 2011, 20:20

Tracks record at normal playing speed then you need about 10-15min to patch thru to your final save destination [My Music] as mp3.
You just record the whole album as 1 file and then, as it is in graph form, just highlight the track, name and save it.
1st one you save prompts you to down load 'Lame-dll for audacity' which is the mp3 converter and takes about 10sec to download. I couldn't have told you that 2 nights ago!
Is simple as even I can do it.